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London To Scotland On An 11-Hour Sleeper Train

We’re checking out of our London rental and trekking north to the Scottish Highlands. But instead of flying or driving to the home of the elusive Loch Ness monster, we’re getting there by rail and we’re sleeping most of the way for our first overnight sleeper train experience.

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Devouring Rome's sites, bites, and culture in just 4 days

Our final leg of our European trip is ditching the holiday theme and focusing on family adventures through the Eternal City of Rome. My mission is to give our kids the most authentic Roman experience Vat-i-can—by taking them through a colosseum worth of sites and bites in just 4 days. There’s a lot to squeeze in, so let’s put our big boy pantheon—and start devouring.

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Four Perfect Days in Paris: Our family's first visit

We’re on a whirlwind tour through Europe and after starting in Florence and making our way to Milan, we’ve left Italy and landed in Paris, France. This is our family’s first trip to The City of Lights and there’s way too much to see and do in just four days. So, we’re pausing our new mission of living like locals and focusing instead on finding as many authentic and kid-friendly sites and bites as we can get our chilly little hands on.

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Milan to Paris by high-speed train: better than flying?

After spending the past week in Florence and Milan, we’re leaving Italy and traveling to a killer 2-bedroom suite in the heart of Paris. By train. That takes 7 hours. And gets us into the city late enough that we’ll be cramming into a temporary room for the night and completing our journey about 24 hours from now. Will this trip feel like a scenic and relaxing journey through the French countryside? Or a never-ending trek with eight bags and couple of tired and hungry kids? We’re about to find out.

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First impressions of Milan, Italy

This week, we’ve retraced Leonardo da Vinci’s steps from nearly 550 years ago as we’ve left Tuscany’s Florence and trekked north to the finance, fashion, food and design Mecca of Milan in Italy’s Lombardy region.

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The 6 best restaurants in Barcelona, Spain

Our recent family trip to Barcelona was all about the food and this episode is our 3rd food tour for this magnificent Mediterranean paradise. Our restaurants tour takes us to multiple Michelin-starred eateries, tapas meccas, and local favorites.

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Barcelona Best Tapas Tour!

On our second day in Barcelona, Spain, we hooked back up with Cristina and headed out on another walking food tour, but this time it was all about finding the best tapas, at the best tapas restaurants. But since it's us, you know we also found some great wines and sangria cava to wash down all this amazing food.

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Barcelona "Sights and Bites" Walking Food + Guided Travel Tour

This week, our family has traveled to Barcelona, Spain (in late winter 2022, mind you) to soak up the culinary treasures of this Mediterranean city. We've hooked up with a local guide and we're taking you on our epic adventure as we eat our way through the best tapas, pintxos, restaurants, food markets, and cultural sights.

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Best Restaurants in Florence Italy in 2022

After our previous episode where we took a Florence, Italy walking tour to find the best street food in town, we’re kicking things up a notch to find the best restaurants in Florence, Italy in 2022.

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